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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alison Bechdel inform her parents that she was gay?
(a) By letter.
(b) By email.
(c) By phone call.
(d) By telling them in person.

2. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is a graphic memoir that is filled with literary allusions. What book by James Joyce is alluded to with the title of Chapter 1: "Old Father, Old Artificer"?
(a) Finnegan's Wake.
(b) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(c) Dubliners.
(d) Ulysses.

3. In what role was the author's mother performing in the play when she met her husband?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Katherina.
(c) Miss Malaprop.
(d) Lady Bracknell.

4. What did Bruce Bechdel teach?
(a) Drama.
(b) English.
(c) Biology.
(d) Calculus.

5. Who wrote the play The American Dream that the author's mother is seen reading in a panel in Chapter 5?
(a) Sam Shepard.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Edward Albee.
(d) E. H. Shepard.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Bruce Bechdel die?

2. What does the author describe her father rinsing her with in the bathtub as a child in Chapter 1?

3. What was the name of Bruce Bechdel's brother?

4. What classic movie with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed does the author allude to in Chapter 1?

5. What play were Bruce Bechdel and his wife performing in when they met?

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